Archivos mensuales : octubre 2014

4th edX Global Forum, on the Boston University campus November 19-21

El Profesor Carlos Delgado Kloos participará en este importante evento en el que se reunirán los principales representantes de la iniciativa de MOOCs de edX.

EdX is pleased to gather together our member organizations for our fourth partner meeting, edx Global Forum, hosted on the Boston University campus, November 19 – 21, 2014. Edx Global Forum is an event for educators, thought leaders, instructional technologists, researchers, visionaries and innovators to share experiences on pedagogical research, blended learning and to explore emerging trends in online education. At the edx Global Forum, members of the edX community will have the opportunity to collaborate to shape the future of education across the globe.

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Publicado el «Manifesto of the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop» realizado por los principales expertos en MOOCs, y en el que participó el Profesor Carlos Delgado Kloos

The rapid emergence and adoption of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has raised new questions and rekindled old debates in higher education. Academic leaders are concerned about educational quality, access to content, privacy protection for learner data, production costs and the proper relationship between MOOCs and residential instruction, among other matters. At the same time, these same leaders see opportunities for the scale of MOOCs to support learning: faculty interest in teaching innovation, better learner engagement through personalization, increased understanding of learner behavior through large-scale data analytics, wider access for continuing education learners and other nonresidential learners, and the possibility to enhance revenue or lower educational costs.

Manifesto of the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop (PDF)

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Seminario «Tecnologías para la educación online» (2014-12-02)

El próximo día 2 de diciembre a las 16:00 se celebrará el cuarto seminario de la Cátedra UNESCO titulado «Tecnologías para la educación online».

Resumen: Las posibilidades que nos ofrecen las tecnologías web influyen radicalmente en las características de la educación digital que se puede dar. En este seminario vamos a conocer de primera mano el estado de HTML5 y otras tecnologías y sus posibilidades en el sector educativo. En la otra de las ponencias, se presentará App Inventor y las posibilidades que ofrece para la creación visual de aplicaciones para móviles con Android. App Inventor baja de esta forma la barrera de entrada para todos aquellos que tengan una idea de negocio y quieran desarrollar aplicaciones móviles de una forma sencilla.

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Interactive eBook on
«Technology-Enhanced Learning for Big Data Skills Development»

«Data is at the centre of the future knowledge economy and society», the European Commission predicts (European Commission, 2014, p.4) and for the Big Data economy to flourish, «an adequate skills base» in form of a «sufficient number of domain experts» needs to be trained «to meet the strong demand in the labour market» (European Commission, 2014, p.6).

With demand soaring, Big Data Skills reel in the top salaries already today (Bednarz, 2014) with studies predicting a further increase in demand by 243% in the years up to 2017 (e-skills UK, 2013, p.6).

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